SSTOs! Post your pictures here~

[Exothermos]

You must be a very aesthetically talented person, I mean, I can get a plane to look that cool once in a while, but you churn out beauties non-stop.

Rune. Design does go faster with experience.

I'm a lazy artist, but mostly I've just been looking at airplanes, and drawing airplanes since I was a little kid. KSP is like a 3D airplane drawing program!

Here is another:

It still needs lots of work, mostly concerning build finesse. Its a little wobbly and loosey-goosey, as well as other little niggling things that annoy me, but SOON.

I'll polish all these planes that are 95% done and release them in a pack by the end of this weekend for those who want to mess around with them.

Finally did it, I have gone absolutely crazy. Here is a SSTO Spaceplane for the Real Solar System with RO plugin.

I can imagine how much more difficult it might be to do this, but I've never played with RSS. What's the hardest part of getting a space plane working in that mod?

Edited March 6, 2014 by Exothermos

[qromodynmc]

Wow dude,this thing is awasome!

[Climberfx]

I have an Hybrid SSTO, that is a heavy lifter i most use. To prove it is a SSTO, it can come back from a 100km orbit, with the service module in it, without detach, but this vehicle, is made to bring all my cargo to space.

Here i have some examples:

The hybrid heavy lifter.

My actual service module:

Here the heaviest cargo i put in orbit with it until now.

A failure launch. All of then now have parachutes to land, but all is capable of an hot landing too. The parachutes are to keep the project effective low cost.

And here the Kerbin Space Lab Station i put togeter all with this hybrid lifter.

Edited March 6, 2014 by Climberfx

[Hodo]

I can imagine how much more difficult it might be to do this, but I've never played with RSS. What's the hardest part of getting a space plane working in that mod?

The hardest thing is actually the amount of delta/V required to get to orbit and taking the right mix of fuel and engines while keeping your mass and drag down.

[Rune]

One comment by Giggleplex got me thinking about big SSTO's and well... this happened. The LR version (one single cockpit, even more fuel instead) has 3.125km/s on orbit, this one 2.7. On a single RAPIER's isp. And the aerodynamics are still awesome, just slightly worse than the White Dart.

Rune. And IMO, it doesn't look bad either.

Edited March 6, 2014 by Rune

[qromodynmc]

I love building planes but,I rarely use them to get into orbit. usually rescue missions.

[Fellow314]

This one's called the Bugshuttle, just because it looks a little, er, buggy.

Two Kerbals into LKO with about 2.5Km/s Delta V remaining. Still a work in progress really, no docking port, no RCS, no TV, no shower room...

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Edited March 6, 2014 by Fellow314

[regex]

Regex, cool shuttle!

That looks great! I've got to get myself something along those lines. And ditto on the cargo bay, such a part should make it into the stock game.

Thank you both! It's low on the part count, perfect for my laptop, but it doesn't bring much more than five tons to orbit. Still, I find myself wanting to use it for everything. Exothermos, love your "wide-mouth bass" plane, BTW, fantastic work!

[9t3ndo]

I love building planes but,I rarely use them to get into orbit. usually rescue missions.

http://i.hizliresim.com/xBQXX9.jpg

http://i.hizliresim.com/wjOJJJ.jpg

Wow i really like the rocket engine design, nice idea.

[qromodynmc]

Thank you

[Mesklin]

Fatty series shuttles

Here is two low orbit shuttle Fatty series - VTOL and HTOL version. Can carry as maximum 6 brave kerbals on board (also can fly in fully automatic mode), 400+ km orbit is reachable. Both version can implement unpowered landing, but VTOL version with minor damages.

And happy together

More pictures

[soulreaver1981]

seems to me you could easily combine the two version's.

[Pauly]

I have an Hybrid SSTO, that is a heavy lifter i most use. To prove it is a SSTO, it can come back from a 100km orbit, with the service module in it, without detach, but this vehicle, is made to bring all my cargo to space.

Here i have some examples:

This is a really nice lifter. It will come in handy when they come out with the money system.

How many and what type of engines are you using?

[KissSh0t]

Returning from the Mun, Lost control of aircraft, regained control over the ocean, had hardly any fuel to get back to land, made the decision to land in the ocean.

Jedediah is the best pilot..

He has been in so many crashes and he always survives *__*

I'm going to give up on this type of SSTO design, it is far too troublesome....

[jmiki8]

Wow, that SSTO is big! I'll never be able to build a spaceplane like that!

This is my light EVA SSTO:

[Fellow314]

Biggest cargo yet, to 650K

Had to put it in slightly wonky or it wouldn't fit.

[KissSh0t]

d..Damn.

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[Taki117]

My SSTO Discovery:

Capable of making a 200kmx200km orbit and returning safely to the runway

Mods used (that I know of) AIES, B9, Realchute, FASA.

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Also comes in a cargo variant, the Atlantis

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[horndgmium]

VTOL SSTO - the Rossborough. All stock (but I keep accidentally oufitting it with mods).

Here's my OP: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/71902-Stock%21-VTOL-SSTO%21

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[KissSh0t]

If you put two reaction wheels on either side of the craft along the center of mass you would have good control of the craft without the need of using RCS when in atmosphere.

[Climberfx]

This is a really nice lifter. It will come in handy when they come out with the money system.

How many and what type of engines are you using?

Hi Pauly, thanks.

It uses 20 Speed Jets, 5x4. 4 Liquid tanks, that if you put 50 ton on 100 km orbit, will fully deplete.

One main sail on middle, just to final circularization, but on full cargo, you will get on orbit with enough fuel to come back without cargo and land on KSC.

But with other common lighter cargos, is easy to get orbit and stay with more then 1000 m/v of dV.

Is my lucky Lifter. Almost of then got back on the pad.

Cheers

Edited March 9, 2014 by Climberfx

[horndgmium]

If you put two reaction wheels on either side of the craft along the center of mass you would have good control of the craft without the need of using RCS when in atmosphere.

I actually did do that (that was my last change) but sometimes I forget to turn off RCS in the atm cause there's a ton of it.

[andrew123]

I just made my first super ssto with both vtol capability and extremely good handling in the lower atmosphere. The updated unsc sabre for more affordable and interesting combat operations.

Download file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lyh7fwc644ah1c8/YSS-2600.craft

1. vtol toggle

2. turbine toggle

3. rapier toggle

4. sensor toggle

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[Fellow314]

Can't quite get this to work yet, the fuel flow is a pain.

(oh, and for some reason, my mechjeb lies )

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[How2FoldSoup]

Using Infernal Robotics, B9, and pWings I came up with a shuttle that I've been designing for awhile. My goal was to fit it inside the s2 wide cargobay in the b9 pack. After a lot of trial and error and different designs I came up with the turtle.

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She's not the most maneuverable in atmo but it's very flyable. She's capable of transporting 4 kerbals into LKO. The highest I've tested is 175x175km but I'm confident she could reach at least 250km with fuel to spare. Its VTOL is very stable and the kerbals managed to invent a matter condensing device to hide those wings:D This is the first SSTO I've posted here too so go easy ^^

I guess I can mention the larger cargo plane too since it's also an SSTO. It's something I whipped up in 5 minutes to test the ability of the Turtle to fit and actually dock into the cargo bay. It's got a few problems that could be weeded up but I've only flown it twice It could probably lift an orangetank + large rcs tank on its own since it had plenty of dv left once I got it into orbit empty.

Soup

Edited March 10, 2014 by How2FoldSoup